"Brandon is amazing," Coach Albert Carrillo said. "All the moves he made and all the broken tackles he did ... they couldn't cover him. He's back to the Brandon of last year. And Albert was all over the field. For their size, it's incredible to see kids making those kind of plays."¿

The all-league team for the Baseline League was announced this week. Clearly, the meeting of coaches was a fiasco.

There's not a single player from league champion Upland that made first-team all-league. As it turns out, Upland Coach Tim Salter said he left the meeting early after the vote for offensive player of the year didn't go his way. He said he nominated lots of players, but the coaches from Chino Hills, Rancho Cucamonga, Damien, Etiwanda and Los Osos apparently decided not to vote for them or not in large enough numbers to get any selected.

To leave off every Upland player makes the all-league team lack credibility and ruins it for all players. It makes the coaches look petty and not capable of putting together an all-league team that's supposed to be based on performance, not politics.

Mark Parades, the coach at Damien, which is new to the league, said, "My question is when this happened, maybe there should have been a recall of the situation by the principals to make sure it's equitable. When a coach or school is not represented at the league meeting, the process is compromised."